The Prince’s Nanny, Her Specialty Is Assassination - Chapter 5

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Chapter 5. Intense Initiation (3)

“Who asked you to butt in?”

This little brat? Acting all high and mighty without even knowing the grace of being saved.

But how could a nanny dare to get angry at a prince?

I forced myself to bow my head to the kid.

“I apologize.”

“Don’t lie. You’re not sorry at all.”

It was a surprisingly sharp observation.

‘He’s quite perceptive despite his appearance.’

The 3rd Prince Edwin I met for the first time had many unexpected aspects.

He fearlessly charged at someone bigger than him.

He thoughtlessly blurted out whatever came to mind.

‘I thought he’d have a dejected personality since he’s called the dog-hair prince. But this is…’

I stared sharply at the kid who was looking straight into my eyes.

‘Only his appearance was angelic.’

Then, Edwin asked me with a displeased expression.

“The old hag said she couldn’t come out today because she was sick. Was she faking it?”

Old hag.

I think the princess said something like that too.

Did the siblings both have some grudge against the Housekeeper?

“It was just a mild headache, so I recovered quickly. Thank you for your concern, Your Highness.”

I bowed and politely expressed my gratitude, but something felt strange.

Edwin was staring at me intently with dissatisfied eyes.

“Your Highness, what’s the matter?”

Edwin tilted his head at my question.

“Somehow, you seem different from usual.”

“Is that so? In what way?”

“You’re uglier than usual.”

“…?”

I almost lost my words at the kid’s sudden personal attack.

“…Your Highness, did I perhaps commit some discourtesy toward you?”

“You, stop acting friendly with me. It’s annoying.”

I tried to maintain my composure and asked again, but the response was still prickly.

“Even if you came in with Emma’s recommendation, I don’t trust you.”

Emma’s recommendation?

I narrowed my eyes and recalled what the Housekeeper had said.

‘The Housekeeper said I came in with Mrs. Conrad’s recommendation.’

So Mrs. Conrad’s name is Emma?

‘Emma Conrad?’

I unconsciously frowned at the somehow familiar name.

‘…No way. It must be someone with the same name. The surname is different too.’

While I was briefly lost in other thoughts, the prince added in a sharp voice.

“You’re on the old hag’s side anyway. I know everything.”

It was quite troublesome since it was all unexpected reactions.

‘At that age, he should be at an age where he’d simply trust and follow his nanny.’

Seeing how excessively wary he was, the original ‘Rachel Brown’ must not have been a very good nanny.

‘The Housekeeper seemed to dislike me too.’

What on earth had this nanny, who had only been in the Imperial Palace for two weeks, been doing to have so many enemies?

I deliberately put on a troubled face and bowed my head.

Anyway, to stay here for the time being, I had to be faithful to my role.

“Your Highness, I am merely your nanny.”

“Ha!”

Edwin crossed his arms and snorted.

“Lies. The old hag must have told you I was here too.”

“…”

“To drag me back, right? What, going to put me under house arrest again?”

Did the Housekeeper have the authority to order house arrest for a prince?

I put aside the questions rising in my head and silently bowed to the kid.

When faced with difficult questions to answer, silence is the best policy.

The prince kept glancing at me like that, then suddenly threw out a remark.

“But how did you know about that earlier?”

“What do you mean?”

When I asked back, the prince shouted as if frustrated.

“How did you know those guys were using tricks!”

“I simply saw it.”

I recalled Gail’s clumsy hand movements.

The kid had been using tricks with the orange-haired guy starting from the second round.

If they used tricks from the beginning, the opponent might not accept the match results.

‘He probably thought those tricks would work on me too.’

Not knowing that I deliberately let myself be fooled the second time.

‘Hah, not a chance. Trying to fool someone with such clumsy tricks.’

I clicked my tongue, recalling the numerous ‘Swindlers’ I’d seen in the Back Alleys.

Compared to their hand movements, Gail’s skills were merely at the level of a water strider splashing.

But Edwin seemed unwilling to accept my words and pouted.

“Lies. I didn’t see it.”

“Your Highness would be seeing such things for the first time. It’s not strange.”

At my words, the kid raised one eyebrow.

“So you’ve seen a lot of them?”

“…Yes, well, somewhat.”

“How? Can nobles see a lot of such things?”

I looked into the prince’s innocent eyes.

They were still fierce and full of wariness, but I could glimpse innocence that couldn’t be completely hidden.

Eyes that I could never have in my lifetime.

Suddenly, the place where I had lived came to mind.

‘A kid like this wouldn’t last half a day if taken there.’

To survive in that place, one had to become a swindler skilled in all sorts of schemes.

And that was the same for me as well.

“I’ve only seen it a few times at the marketplace.”

I gave the kid a gentle smile as if it was nothing.

“Their hand movements were slower than the ones I’d seen before.”

“What. So they were nothing special after all.”

Edwin had a face that said his pride was hurt.

“Your Highness being fooled was unavoidable…”

“I wasn’t fooled, okay? Don’t act smart when you’re uglier than me.”

This kid, I feel like he’d come to his senses if I gave him a good punch. Should I hit him lightly?

I forcibly suppressed my clenching fists.

‘If rumors spread that a nanny hit a prince, I’d be kicked out immediately.’

Actually, strictly speaking, Edwin’s words weren’t entirely wrong either.

I stared at the kid for a moment, then smiled brightly.

“Your Highness, do you happen to know this?”

“What?”

“When someone looks ugly to you, it’s because your own heart is ugly.”

Edwin blinked his eyes after hearing my words.

His face contorting was a matter of an instant.

“You, you’re saying my heart is ugly right now? Are you insulting me, a prince, right now!”

A child is indeed a child.

I showed a calm smile to the boy who was getting worked up.

“I am not insulting Your Highness, but offering sincere advice in hopes that Your Highness will have a righteous heart.”

I continued speaking calmly while looking at the fuming Edwin.

“I am Your Highness’s nanny, after all.”

The boy glared at me with blazing eyes and then suddenly shouted.

“Don’t be ridiculous. I hate people like you the most! You know?”

The prince pointed his finger at me while fuming.

‘Geez, he’s really throwing a tantrum.’

I’m also sick of arrogant brats like this.

I looked at the boy with an indifferent face wearing a fake smile.

Edwin glared at me for a while, then snatched the bracelet from my hand.

Then he ran off toward the Prince’s Palace without a word.

I wasn’t expecting a thank you, but this was still quite bewildering.

I raised my eyebrows while watching the back of the boy running away.

“What kind of kid is that?”

* * *

“My lord?”

The Man forgot to respond to his subordinate’s call as he recalled what he had just seen.

Would it be around this much?

The Man placed his hand near his solar plexus.

Slightly disheveled ash-brown hair.

Skirt hem fluttering in the wind.

And eyes like dark green topaz.

That ‘thing’ that easily climbed over a wall taller than his own height had something special that drew The Man’s attention.

Just the fact that it noticed his gaze hidden in the shadows proved that.

“How intriguing.”

The corners of The Man’s mouth curved into a slanted arc.

Meanwhile, The Man’s adjutant, Oliver Green, frowned upon hearing his words.

“My lord, did you perhaps get hit in the head?”

Though he did get hit on the crown of his head for daring to worry about his lord’s mental state.

“That hurts!”

“An insolent adjutant needs a beating as medicine.”

Oliver clutched his head as if wronged and shouted.

“You disappeared without a word making me worry, and even after returning you don’t say a word, so that’s why I’m saying this!”

“Was I such an unreliable person that you need to worry about me?”

“Well, my lord is someone who would return safely even if dropped in the middle of a desert, but still…”

Oliver stopped mid-sentence.

Seeing The Man’s composed appearance made his own worry seem truly pointless.

The Man, wrapped in pitch-black darkness like a veil from head to toe, radiated strength from his entire body.

His golden eyes that shone like those of a predator were enough to make one’s knees weak just by looking at them.

“Sigh, anyway, this is the heart of the enemy’s territory, isn’t it?”

Oliver sighed while facing those fierce eyes he still couldn’t get used to.

“There are many watching eyes, so please refrain from conspicuous actions.”

The Man only smiled slyly at his adjutant’s sincere advice.

Perhaps finding that expression ominous, Oliver’s eyes widened.

“My lord, you can’t.”

At the sudden “you can’t,” The Man raised one eyebrow.

“What?”

Then the adjutant frowned and added.

“I don’t know. I don’t know what it is, but you can’t do it anyway.”

He looked at The Man, his lord, with wide eyes.

“I feel like my lifespan shortens every time my lord makes that expression.”

“You worry about all sorts of useless things.”

The Man cracked his neck left and right as if tired, then stared straight ahead with a languid gaze.

“Don’t worry, I understand the priority of tasks.”

“That sounds like you’re saying you’ll do whatever you want after finishing your work?”

“My adjutant is good because he’s quick-witted.”

“Sigh, my lord. Don’t tell me you’re still searching for that woman?”

Oliver lowered his voice with a dubious expression.

“Kayla Angel, I mean.”

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